Beyond Gender – Classification, Experience and the Symbolic Life of Identity
The Beyond Gender episode on the classification of gender identity opens up a more difficult question than whether the phrase “transgender child” is true or […]
Depth Psychology
What Are We Afraid Of? Jung, Culture, and the Symbolic Life of Fear
Much of contemporary Western culture seems saturated with fear, yet public discussion rarely asks the most direct question: what are we actually afraid of? We […]
The Severed Head: Symbolism, Identity, and the Search for Wholeness
There are moments in public life when political disputes seem to draw upon a deeper reservoir of images and symbols than the immediate arguments might […]
Protectors, Promoters, and the Psychology of Social Balance
But protection and security are only valuable when not excessively cramping to our existence: and in the same way the superiority of consciousness is desirable […]
Beyond Ideology – Idealisation, Empathy, and the Collective Psyche in the Digital Age
The recent Beyond Gender conversation with Gurwinder Bhogal is ostensibly about social media, attention, addiction, and political contagion. Yet beneath the immediate discussion lies a […]
The Psychic Ecology of Media, Identity, and Sensemaking
Contemporary discussions about identity formation often focus on the interaction between individuals and media systems. The recent discussion in the Beyond Gender podcast, with Soren […]
This Isn’t Working – The Lost Mythos
The recent episode of This Isn’t Working, featuring HR commentator Tanya de Grunwald in conversation with clinical psychologist Jaco van Zyl, circles an issue that […]
The Feminisation of Institutions and the Lost Language of the Symbolic Feminine
The recent Triggernometry conversation with Helen Andrews centres on a provocative but important claim: that many of the cultural pathologies now gathered under the label […]
Breaking the Spell of Convention – Gnostic and Hermetic Strategies for Awakening, and Jung’s Reading of the “Aion”
When people speak about “breaking free of social convention”, they often mean a change of attitude, a refusal of conformity, or a personal re-imagination of […]
The Psychologist as Drama Critic – Consciousness, Role, and the Suspension of Disbelief
One way of understanding the work of the psychologist is to see them not primarily as a technician of symptoms or a manager of behaviours, […]